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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1951

41 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 3

Wreckage Found

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 1

CASPER (Wyoming), Sunday (AAP). -- The wreckage of a private twin-engined plane, which crashed with five persons…

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Steamer Trade Delayed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 June 1951 · page 2

Combination of bad weather and watersiders' sympathy with the events in Sydney have held up the N.C.S.N…

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Dived Into Sea, Swam Ashore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--A French stowaway, Jean Durind (23) smashed a pair of handcuffs and dived overboard from the…

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Ketch On World Tout Passes Coff's

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR. Thursday.--The 38ft ketch Christine, on which Dr. E. A. Joske is making a round-the-world tour, passed Coff's Harbour late to-day…

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Ketch Missing

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.--East coast shipping has been warned by the Navigation Department to be on the lookout for a missing…

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Rafts Wrecked Pontoon Bridge

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 3

TOKIO, Thursday. (AAP-Reuter).--Chinese rafts floating downstream caused the restruction of a pontoon bridge across…

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Natives Locate Plane Wreckage

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 3

PORT MORESBY, Wed. (AAP-Reuter).-- Natives have located the wreckage of an Auster aircraft which…

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No Gold Found In Wrecked Plane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 3

LAE, Fri., (AAP-Reuter).-- It is now feared that the gold bullion aboard the Drover plane wrecked off Lae recently,…

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Rescued From Wreck

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 1

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sunday (A.A.P.).--The 260 passengers aboard the Brazilian Libyda liner Santos were rescued at…

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New Margate Lifeboat Launched

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 5

The new Margate lifeboat was named "North Foreland" and launched by Her Royal Higkness tho Duchess of Kant President of the Royal National Lifeboat institution,and dedicated by the Bishop of Dover, at Margaterecently. the new lifeboat is the…

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Police Aid To Recover Ketch Gear

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.--Captain Golden cf the ketch Seafarer, which ran aground yesterday after being adrift…

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Natives Looted Wrecked Ship

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 1

DARWIN, Thurs.--The wrecked New Zealand troopship Wahine has been almost "completely looted." said Captain A…

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Left Wing Hopes Wrecked

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 4

LONDON, Thurs.(AAP).--British trade unionists wrecked left-wing hopes that the rank-and-file might…

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Tug Going To Aid Coastal Steamer

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 September 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--The Sydney tug, Wonga, tonight steamed to the assistance of the 398 ton coastal steamer Allen wood, which ran ashore in a fog near Norah Head before dawn to-day…

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Communist Newspaper Equipment Wrecked

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 6

HAVANA, Tues. (A.A.P.)--Four carloads of masked and heavily-armed men wrecked the printing…

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Says 40-Hour Week Wrecking Australia

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 October 1951 · page 2

MACLEAN. -- Tyndale and Lower Clarence branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association will co-operate…

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Two Feared Drowned Wreckage Found

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 1

LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.--Following the finding of wreckage and the sighting of a partly sunken hull…

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Sfaman Brought Ashore for Operation

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 1

At a late hour on Thursday night last a member of the crew of HMAS Tringa was brought ashore at Coffs…

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Fishing Boat Biown Ashore

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 30 November 1951 · page 8

A 22ft. fishing boat owned by Mr. G. Wingfield was blown ashore on the northern breakwater during the height of the…

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Another Launch Wrecked

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 6

A launch owned by Mr. M. Cunningham became a total wreck at the weekend when the strong wind caused it to break…

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